I’ve lost everything and I don’t know how to get it back. How can I repair my system all I have is a usb with slax linux. I am freaking out because I had a lot of projects on their that I hadn’t pushed to github as well as my configs and rice. Is there any way to repair my system? Can I get a shell from systemd?
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Oh my God. Flashbacks to the first time I fucked up my Arch installation like a decade ago. This is a solid run-through of a very character-building exercise 😂
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I couldn’t figure out how to mount /dev/sda1 and did pacman -Syu and then I mounted it once I figured it out now pacman says there is nothing to do.
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Pretty sure pacman runs mkinitcpio by itself, but I guess a second time for good measure couldn’t hurt
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Not an endavour/arch user, but have been in similar situation.
What I did:
- boot into live USB
- mount the problematic rootfs
- chroot to it
- run pacman update
Archwiki has a nice article on chroot
Is this work for every system? Like Fedora?
Well , except the pacman part. The chroot part should certainly work.
Thank you all for offering advice. I did eventually get it working and repaired all the packages.
Boot to a liveUSB of the distro of your choice, create a chroot to your install, and then run a Pacman update from there.
Googling “Arch rescue chroot” should point you in the right direction. Good luck!
Btw if you solved this, you should probably put your config files into git for backup: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dotfiles
i dunno why you gotta call me out like that…
Does Timeshift work on Arch? If so I would look into it, saved my ass a few times.
Timeshift definitely works on Arch (I use it before every update) but it isn’t going to help OP if he hasnt taken an image already
